Design is Kinky

A great design site I frequent from time to time for inspiration. Especially cool is the mugshots page which links a designer mugshot with their work.

Kermit sings Hurt

Wildy inappropriate, in a good way.

younanimous meta search

younanimous is a meta search engine that's fast, filters spam out of search results, and gives various statistics about each link (digg rating, del.icio.us results, alexa rankings etc.) One of the only meta search engines I've actually enjoyed using.

Advertising in Tokyo's train stations.

An interesting article that details some of the more unique methods advertisers use in the tokyo subways.

Desktopography

Really really cool website. It's about nature themed desktops. An excelent mix of music and design. The whole thing is really well done.

Web Creme

A very nicely designed site that links to other very nicely designed sites. Very spare but effective.

Consumer Psychology

An interesting article from, the LA Times. The articles deals with how expansion of what was once a local store into a national chain at too fast a rate can have very nasty side side effects. Used as examples of this are Starbucks, Krispy Creme, and Snapple. Not everyone does it wrong though. Trader Joe's is given kudos for their well thought out and methodical expansion.

Cartoons, Now and Then

Scans from Look magazine published in 1939. It talks about censor ship in cartoons. It's interesting to see what they could and couldn't do back then as compared with today's cartoons. Metalocalypse, an animated show on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim, makes an especially interesting comparison.